na_nocb: Next observation carry back
In dataobservatory-eu/indicator: Tidy Statistical Indicators

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

Fill missing values in a time series (or in a column of a longitudional data set) with the next observation carry back method.

1	na_nocb(indicator)

indicator

A tibble created by get_eurostat_indicator. with time, geo, value, frequency, estimate and method columns.

A tibble updated with the values carried back.

Other approximation functions: impute_indicators(), na_approx(), na_locf()

{
example_df <- data.frame (
   time = rep(as.Date (paste0(2018:2021, "-01-01")),3),
   geo = c( rep("NL", 4), rep("BE", 4), rep("LU", 4)),
   value = c(10,11, NA_real_, 12, NA_real_, 21,22,23, 5,6,7,NA_real_),
   frequency = rep("A", 12)
)
example_df$method <- ifelse(is.na(example_df$value), "missing", "actual")
example_df$estimate <- example_df$method

na_nocb ( example_df )
}